Dr David Pitt
Fifty years on: the battle to elect Britain’s first black MP
Dr David Pitt’s experience is now largely forgotten. It shouldn’t be.
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
